The “Can’t leave anything alone” Thread

[woodysone]

I’ll third this, beautiful work on these.

 

[Spikediesel]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! There are so many talented people in this thread and on bladeforums! This is a great place to display projects. I learn so much by talking to other members and seeing what they are workin on.

 

[jideta]

yesterday



Today the good stuff came in:



about 90% done

 

[Eversion]

I did a thing

 

[WValtakis]

I did a thing View attachment 1450582 View attachment 1450583

Nice!

 

[WValtakis]

 

[Eversion]

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So it begins

In other news, I decided to do another one while I had the stuff out



I learned just about every possible way to screw this up, but I think I've got the method down now.

 

[WValtakis]

So it begins

In other news, I decided to do another one while I had the stuff out

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I learned just about every possible way to screw this up, but I think I've got the method down now.

That one has a very "galaxy" thing going on, I like it!

 

[WValtakis]

 

[WValtakis]

 

[woodysone]

No where as nice as that engraving, but Chip sure knows how to make it look like it was factory.

By opening up the hole a little it makes it much easier to get my thumb in there, sort of like the Gale Bradley.

 

[LSUisSEC]

Slightly rounded the spine of the Shaman

 

[WValtakis]

No where as nice as that engraving, but Chip sure knows how to make it look like it was factory.

By opening up the hole a little it makes it much easier to get my thumb in there, sort of like the Gale Bradley.

I still can't believe they didn't do that from the factory, just a small chamfer makes a HUGE difference in ease of opening.

 

[jideta]

 

[ChazzyP]

I haven't been over here since last Spring and will need to scroll back some to catch up. In the meantime I've made my typically small mods with stuff I can buy or swap around with a few knives I've picked up along the way. On this one I added these flame-ano'd Wilkins to this 550...

...to give me this...

...and swapped out the black Parkerized split arrow I was gonna use on it to my all-Wilkins scaled and re-bladed used-to-be 551...

...which gives that one more overall tonal contrast plus a black hardware and bead match, while the bright Wilkins deep-carry clip really pops on the brightly colored scales on the 550.

 

[Eversion]

Got bored of the plain blue on my Spydiechef so I upped the ano to a green-teal fade

 

[WValtakis]

Hehehehe

 

[Eversion]

Hehehehe

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You madlad!

 

[jideta]

took my bag o'knife to the studio



First up was drilling the clip off the scales. The screws were in there good so I needed to extract the screws.
I thought I learned something the first time I did this.
Apparently not because as I was doing the countersinks...



I almost packed up and went home.
There went like 12 bucks worth of cocobolo!
Okay, take a deep breath!
Try again.
If you look at the screw holes you can see how deep I counter sunk the holes.
Too deep!
Now I had to fab some washer/spacers:



Two! and I still need one more.
Then I had to figure out why the scales were not lining up.
Five hours later:



I think I'm done messing with it for today!
The first set was actually slightly thinner than this set, which is cut to 1/8".
Now they are too fat, so I'll need to work the edges a bit more.
Waiting on a tap so I can install the clip and then I'll be done.
I think.

 

[killgar]

Great thread. Lots of impressive work.

I recently finished customizing a Cold Steel Tilite 6.

Here's what it looked like stock-

And some finished pics-

I created a thread over in the Cold Steel manufacturers subforum with more pics and info https://bladeforums.com/threads/custom-tilite-6.1759591/